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Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
CV, January 2017
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas
2201 Speedway, C3200
Austin, TX 78712
Office: 512-471-0786
e-mail: [email protected]
Education
PhD
2002
University of Chicago. Anthropology. Dissertation title: Food, Eating, and Objects
of Power: Class Stratification and Ceramic Production and Consumption in
Colonial Mexico.
M.A.
B.A.
1997
1994
University of Chicago. Anthropology.
University of Texas at Austin, with High Honors, Archaeological Studies.
Interests
archaeology, history, ethnohistory, Mesoamerica, the Spanish empire in Latin America, Mexico,
Puerto Rico, archaeometry (INAA and LA-ICP-MS), colonialism, religious conversion, technology
Professional appointments
2010-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
2003-2009
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
2002-2003
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Archaeometry Laboratory, Research Reactor,
and Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri,
Columbia.
Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
Extramural grants and fellowships:
2016-2017
2016-2017
2012-2013
2010-2011
2006-2010
2003-2004
National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant: Communal Ritual
Space in Xaltocan, From the Postclassic to the Colonial Period. In collaboration
with Kristin De Lucia. Award no.: BCS 1550446. $77,494.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, “The Material Worlds of
16th-Century Colonial Mexico City.” ($50,400).
Howard Foundation Fellowship ($30,000).
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.
National Science Foundation Collaborative Proposal: Elite Strategies and Political
Change in Xaltocan, Mexico (BCS-0612131), E. Rodríguez-Alegría, Co-PI, and
Elizabeth Brumfiel (Northwestern University), Co-PI ($58,916.00 for RodríguezAlegría).
National Science Foundation Minority Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (SES0309796): Display, Production, and Power in Colonial Mexico ($100,000 over
two-year period, turned down second year of fellowship support).
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2000-2001
2000
1999
1995-1999
1994, 1996
1992
1991
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities, National Research
Council.
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS0083274): Class Stratification and Ceramics in Colonial Mexico ($12,000).
Doctoral Research Internship at the Missouri University Research Reactor
Archaeometry Laboratory.
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Predoctoral Fellowship.
Honorable Mentions, National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.
Golden Key National Honor Society.
National Hispanic Scholar.
Intramural grants, fellowships, and honors:
2016-2017
2011-2012
2011
2010-2011
2010
2008
2008
2007
2005
2005
2005
2005
2003
2001
1995-2000
1997
1993, 1994
1992, 1993
Supplemental College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of
Texas at Austin. (approx. $56,411)
Big XII Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, for travel to the Archaeometry
Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia. ($1,400)
Mellon Summer Travel Grant, Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies,
University of Texas at Austin.
College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at
Austin. ($37,503).
Mellon Summer Travel Grant, Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies,
University of Texas at Austin. ($5,000)
Dean’s Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin.
Mellon Summer Travel Grant, Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies,
University of Texas at Austin.
Dean’s Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin.
Special Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin: Obsidian Production in
Xaltocan, Mexico. ($750).
Mellon Faculty Research Grant, LLILAS, University of Texas at Austin: The
Colonial Chapels of Xaltocan: An Archaeology of Religious Conversion and
Political Economy. ($2,700).
Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin: The Colonial
Chapels of Xaltocan: An Archaeology of Religious Conversion and Political
Economy. ($7,790).
Faculty Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin: The Colonial Chapels of
Xaltocan: An Archaeology of Religious Conversion and Ritual Economy ($6,000).
Special Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin: Chemical characterization
of colonial obsidian artifacts from Xaltocan, Mexico ($750.00).
Starr Lectureship, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
Special Trustees Fellowship, University of Chicago.
Tinker Summer Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of
Chicago.
University of Texas, MAPS Honor Roll.
University of Texas, Liberal Arts Dean’s Honors List.
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Grants on behalf of students
2012-2013
Books
2016*
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Material
Culture of Conversion: Early Franciscan Sites in Tula, Hidalgo. On behalf of
Shannon Iverson, University of Texas at Austin (BCS-1156359). ($19,943)
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Central Mexico: Mixing
Epistemologies. Cambridge University Press. x + 241 pages.
Edited volumes and journal sections
(*indicates peer reviewed publications)
2016
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs. Edited by Deborah Nichols and E.
Rodríguez-Alegría. Oxford University Press. xxix + 748 pages.
*2016
Special section, “Breaking and Entering the Ecosystem—Remembering Elizabeth
M. Brumfiel.” Ancient Mesoamerica Vol. 27, Issue 01. Coordinated by Deborah
Nichols and E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Pages 149-230.
*2012
The Menial Art of Cooking: Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food
Preparation. Edited by Sarah Graff and E. Rodríguez-Alegría. The University
Press of Colorado. 248 pp.
Journal articles
(* denotes peer reviewed journal publications)
*2016
2014
E. Rodríguez-Alegría, and Wesley Stoner. “The Trade in Cooking Tools under
the Aztec and the Spanish Empire” Ancient Mesoamerica, 27(01):197-207.
A Paradox in Colonialism and Technological Change. Revista de Arqueología
Americana. 32:7-26.
*2014
Stoner, W. D., J. K. Millhauser, E. Rodríguez-Alegría, L. Overholtzer and M. D.
Glascock. “Taken with a Grain of Salt: Experimentation and the Chemistry of
Archaeological Ceramics from Xaltocan, Mexico.” Journal of Archaeological
Method and Theory. 21:862-898.
*2013
E. Rodríguez-Alegría, John Millhauser, and Wesley Stoner. “Trade, Tribute, and
Neutron Activation: The Colonial Political Economy of Xaltocan, Mexico.”
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32:397-414.
*2012
Jaime Mata-Míguez, Lisa Overholtzer, E. Rodríguez-Alegría,
and Deborah A. Bolnick. “The Genetic Impact of Aztec Imperialism:
Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Evidence from Xaltocan, Mexico.” American
Journal of Physical Anthropology. 149(4):504-516.
*2011
John Millhauser, E. Rodríguez-Alegría, and Michael D. Glascock. “Testing the
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accuracy of portable X-ray fluorescence to study Aztec and Colonial obsidian
supply at Xaltocan, Mexico.” Journal of Archaeological Science 38:3141-3152.
*2010
J.G. Iñañez, J.J. Bellucci, E. Rodríguez-Alegría, R. Ash, W. McDonough, R.J.
Spekman “Romita pottery revisited: a reassessment of the provenance of ceramics
from Colonial Mexico by LA-MC-ICP-MS” Journal of Archaeological Science
37:2698-2704.
*2010
“Incumbents and Challengers: Indigenous Politics and the Adoption of Spanish
Material Culture in Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico” Historical Archaeology 44(2):5171.
2008
“De la Edad de Piedra a la Edad de más Piedra” Cuadernos de Arqueología
Mediterránea Vol. XVII: 15-30. Barcelona.
*2008
“Narratives of Conquest, Colonialism, and Cutting-edge Technology.” American
Anthropologist. 110(1):33-41.
*2005
“Eating Like an Indian: Negotiating Social Relations in the Spanish Colonies,”
Current Anthropology 46(4):551-573. [Lead article with CA* commentary]
*2003
Rodríguez-Alegría, E., Hector Neff and Michael D. Glascock “Indigenous ware
or Spanish import? The Case of Indígena Ware and Approaches to Power in
Colonial Mexico” Latin American Antiquity 14(1):67-81.
Book chapters
(* denotes peer reviewed publications)
2016
Deborah Nichols and E. Rodríguez-Alegría “Introduction—Aztec Studies:
Trends and Themes.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, edited by Deborah
Nichols and E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Oxford University Press. Pp. 1-17.
2016
“A City Transformed: From Tenochtitlan to Mexico City in the 16th century.” In
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, edited by Deborah Nichols and E.
Rodríguez-Alegría. Oxford University Press. Pp. 661-674.
2016
“The Material Worlds of Colonizers in New Spain.” In Archaeologies of Early
Modern Spanish Colonialism, edited by Sandra Montón-Subias, María Cruz
Berrocal, and Apen Ruiz. Springer. Pp. 39-59.
2015
E. Rodríguez-Alegría, Franz Scaramelli and Ana María Navas “Technological
transformations: adaptationist, relativist, and economic models in Mexico and
Venezuela.” In Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and
Portuguese America, edited by Pedro Paulo A Funari and María Ximena
Senatore. Springer, pp. 53-77.
*2012
From Grinding Corn to Dishing out Money: A long-term history of cooking in
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Xaltocan, Mexico. In The Menial Art of Cooking: Archaeological Studies of
Cooking and Food Preparation. Edited by Sarah Graff and E. RodríguezAlegría. The University Press of Colorado. Pp. 99-117.
*2012
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Sarah Graff “Introduction” in The Menial Art of
Cooking: Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation. Edited by
Sarah Graff and E. Rodríguez-Alegría. The University Press of Colorado. Pp. 118.
*2012
“The Discovery and Decolonization of Xaltocan, Mexico” in Decolonizing
Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology,
edited by Maxine Oland, Siobhan Hart, and Liam Frink, pp. 45-65. University of
Arizona Press.
2008
“The Aztecs After the Conquest”, in The Aztec World, edited by Elizabeth
Brumfiel and Gary Feinman, pp.195-208. Abrams.
*2007
“Addicted to Rituals of Contested Meanings”, in Ritual Economy in Mesoamerica:
Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnology, edited by E. Christian Wells and
Karla Davis Salazar, University of Colorado Press. Pp.115-136.
*2005
“Consumption and the Varied Ideologies of Domination in Colonial Mexico
City”, in The Late Postclassic to Spanish-era Transition in Mesoamerica:
Archaeological Perspectives. Edited by Rani Alexander and Susan Kepecs, pp.3548. University of New Mexico Press.
2003
“Ideologías coloniales y cerámica indígena en la traza mexicana” in Excavaciones
del Programa de Arqueología Urbana, Colección Científica #452. Edited by
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, pp.309-326. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e
Historia, México, D.F.
2002
“Indígena Ware: From Spain to the Valley of Mexico” in Geochemical Evidence
for Long Distance Exchange, Michael D. Glascock (editor), pp. 13-32. Scientific
Archaeology for the Third Millennium, Bergin and Garvey. Westport,
Connecticut.
Commentaries, Encyclopedia Entries, and Book Reviews
In press,
2017
Review of The Death of Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City, by Barbara
Mundy. University of Texas Press, 2015. Bulletin of Latin American Research.
2016
Review of Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory, by Frances F. Berdan.
Cambridge University Press, 2014. Latin American Antiquity.
2015
Food and Politics. In The Archaeology of Food, edited by Karen B. Metheny and
Mary Beaudry. Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 193-195.
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2008
Comments for “Gender, Race, and Labor in the Archaeology of the SpanishColonial Americas”, by Barbara Voss. Current Anthropology 49(5):882-883.
2003
Review of Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in
Colonial Mexico by Samuel Y. Edgerton. University of New Mexico Press,
Albuquerque, 2001. Latin American Antiquity 14(2):238.
Archaeological Reports
Edited field reports (all peer reviewed by the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia in Mexico):
2010
2009
2007
2006
2005
Elizabeth Brumfiel and E. Rodríguez-Alegría (editors) Estrategias de las elites y
cambios políticos en Xaltocan, México. Informe Anual de 2007 al Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Elite Strategies and Political Change in
Xaltocan, Mexico). Field report on file at the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México.
(principal investigator and editor) La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México:
Informe final de excavaciones de 2003 y 2005. Final project report submitted to
the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México.
(principal investigator and editor) La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México:
Informe de Materiales Excavados en 2003 y 2005. Lab report submitted to the
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. 70pp.
(principal investigator and editor) La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México:
informe anual de 2005. Field report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia, Mexico. 104pp.
(principal investigator and editor) La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México:
informe anual de 2003. Field report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia, Mexico. 90pp.
Chapters in field reports:
2010
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Elizabeth M. Brumfiel “Introducción: Bases teóricas y
métodos de investigación” in Estrategias de las elites y cambios políticos en
Xaltocan, México. Informe Anual de 2007 al Instituto Nacional de Antropología
e Historia (Elite Strategies and Political Change in Xaltocan, Mexico). Edited by
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Elizabeth Brumfiel. Field report on file at the Consejo
de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México.
2010
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Elizabeth M. Brumfiel “Análisis y Conclusiones
Preliminares” in Estrategias de las elites y cambios políticos en Xaltocan,
México. Informe Anual de 2007 al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
(Elite Strategies and Political Change in Xaltocan, Mexico). Edited by E.
Rodríguez-Alegría and Elizabeth Brumfiel. Field report on file at the Consejo de
Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México.
2007
“Introducción” In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: Informe de Materiales
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Excavados en 2003 y 2005. Edited by E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Lab report submitted
to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México.
2007
“La cerámica arqueológica en Xaltocan” In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan,
México: Informe de Materiales Excavados en 2003 y 2005. Edited by E.
Rodríguez-Alegría. Lab report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología
e Historia, México.
2007
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Micaela Obledo “La obsidiana colonial en Xaltocan” In
La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: Informe de Materiales Excavados en
2003 y 2005. Edited by E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Lab report submitted to the Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México.
2006
“Introducción” In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: informe anual de
2005. Edited by E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Field report submitted to the Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
2006
Kirsten Atwood and E. Rodríguez-Alegría “Pozo Colonial 4 (PC4): Introducción”
In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: informe anual de 2005. Edited by E.
Rodríguez-Alegría. Field report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
2006
Socorro Alvarado Ortiz and E.Rodríguez-Alegría “PC4: Interpretación de todos
los contextos.” In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: informe anual de
2005. Edited by E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Field report submitted to the Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
2006
“Conclusión” In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: informe anual de 2005.
Edited by E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Field report submitted to the Instituto Nacional
de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
2005
“Introducción” In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: informe anual de
2003. Edited by E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Field report submitted to the Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
2005
“Resumen de excavación del Pozo Colonial 1, PC1, Xaltocan, México, 2003” In
La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México: informe anual de 2003. Edited by E.
Rodríguez-Alegría. Field report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
2005
“Análisis de Mayólica Colonial” In La Etapa Colonial en Xaltocan, México:
informe anual de 2003. Edited by E. Rodríguez-Alegría. Field report submitted
to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
2001
“Las dimensiones sociales de la mayólica en Xaltocan, informe preliminar” in
Unidades domésticas en Xaltocan Postclásico: Informe Anual de trabajo de
campo de 1999 en Xaltocan, México report submitted to the Instituto Nacional
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de Antropología e Historia de México, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Principal
Investigator and editor.
2001
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Andrea Michele Johnson “Resumen de la Operación
G7” in Unidades domésticas en Xaltocan Postclásico: Informe Anual de trabajo
de campo de 1999 en Xaltocan, México.
1998
“El sitio ET, Operación B” in Unidades domésticas en Xaltocan Postclásico
Informe Anual de trabajo de campo de 1997 en Xaltocan, México report
presented to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México.
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Principal Investigator and editor.
1998
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Jennifer Miesle “La Operación G4” in Unidades
domésticas en Xaltocan Postclásico.
1998
“Resumen del recorrido y recolección de cerámica en el sitio ET” in Unidades
domésticas en Xaltocan Postclásico.
1998
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and E. Rodríguez-Alegría “Apéndice I: Descripción
preliminar de los tipos cerámicos del sitio ET” in Unidades domésticas en
Xaltocan Postclásico.
Archaeometry letter reports:
2003
E. Rodríguez-Alegría, Michael D. Glascock, and R. J. Speakman “Instrumental
Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics, Soil Samples, and a Possible Tempering
Agent from La Junta Region, West Texas”. Report on file at the Research
Reactor, University of Missouri at Columbia.
2003
Letter report of instrumental neutron activation analysis of ceramics from the
Swarts ruin, New Mexico, submitted to Dr. Darrell Creel, Director of the Texas
Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, on April 29,
2003. Report on file at the Research Reactor, University of Missouri at Columbia.
2003
E. Rodríguez-Alegría, Michael D. Glascock, and Robert J. Speakman
“Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics from La Puntilla, Peru.”
Report on file at the Research Reactor, University of Missouri at Columbia.
2003
Letter report of instrumental neutron activation analysis of ceramics from the
Owens Valley, California, submitted to Dr. John Hildebrand, Scripps Institute of
Oceanography, University of California, San Diego on January 24, 2003. Report
on file at the Research Reactor, University of Missouri at Columbia.
2002
E. Rodríguez-Alegría, Michael D. Glascock, and Robert J. Speakman
“Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Late Coles Creek/Early
Mississippian Ceramics from the Tensas Basin, Louisiana” Report on file at the
Research Reactor, University of Missouri at Columbia.
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Fieldwork experience
2016
2007
2005
2003
1999
1998
1997
1996
1990, 1992
Principal Investigator with Kristin De Lucia (Colgate University): Communal
Ritual Space in Xaltocan, From the Postclassic to the Colonial Period. Excavations
in the church atrium in Xaltocan (June and July).
Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth M. Brumfiel (Northwestern University),
Estrategias de las elites en Xaltocan, Mexico. Excavation of building in the main
plaza of Xaltocan and posterior analysis of ceramics and other artifacts (June and
July).
Principal Investigator and Field Director, La etapa colonial en Xaltocan, Mexico.
Excavation of colonial components associated with two colonial chapels and
posterior analysis of ceramic and obsidian artifacts (June and July).
Principal Investigator and Field Director, La etapa colonial en Xaltocan, Mexico.
Excavation of colonial components and posterior analysis of ceramic and obsidian
artifacts (June and July).
Field Assistant, Postclassic domestic units excavations in Xaltocan, Mexico.
Elizabeth Brumfiel, PhD, Project Director. Excavation of Late Aztec house
mound, and preliminary analysis of early colonial ceramics. (June and July)
Field Assistant in the excavation at the Palacio de Odontología, Licenciado
Verdad 2, Pograma de Arqueología Urbana del Museo del Templo Mayor,
Mexico City. Francisco Hinojosa, Supervisor. (2 months)
Field Assistant, Postclassic domestic units excavations in Xaltocan, Mexico.
Elizabeth Brumfiel, PhD, Project Director. Survey and excavation of Postclassic
site, excavation of Late Aztec house mound. (2 months)
Graduate Teaching Assistant/Mentor, National Science Foundation Young
Scholars Field School, Center for American Archaeology, Kampsville, Illinois.
(2 months)
Student and excavator at the Summer Archaeological Field School, University of
Puerto Rico, Monserrate site, Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Diana López, Project
Director. (2 months)
Laboratory Experience (selected)
2003
2002-2003
1999, 2001
1998, 1999
Analysis of obsidian artifacts from colonial Xaltocan. Museum of Anthropology,
University of Michigan. (5 months).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Archaeometry Laboratory at the Research
Reactor, University of Missouri at Columbia: instrumental neutron activation
analysis (INAA) and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
(LA ICP-MS). Michael Glascock, PhD, Senior Scientist and supervisor. (1 year)
Doctoral Research Intern at the Missouri University Research Reactor
Archaeometry Laboratory: instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and
laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA ICP-MS).
Michael Glascock, PhD, Senior Scientist and supervisor. (5 months)
Researcher on colonial ceramics, Programa de Arqueología Urbana, Museo del
Templo Mayor, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. J.
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Alvaro Barrera, Project Supervisor. (18 months)
Archival research experience (selected)
2004
2000
Postdoctoral research on post-mortem inventories from sixteenth-century Mexico,
Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain. (6 months)
Doctoral dissertation research with sixteenth century legal documents from
Mexico at the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain. (2 months)
Special technical skills
Instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA)
Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
Teaching
2004-2015
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
Undergraduate courses:
Theories of Archaeology
Aztecs and Spaniards
Technology and Practical Reason (Honors course)
Colonial Latin American Archaeology,
Introduction to Mesoamerican Archaeology (taught as Substantial Writing
Component or lecture class),
Introduction to Archaeology (taught as Substantial Writing Component or
lecture class with laboratory),
Ceramic Analysis (with laboratory).
Graduate seminars:
Epistemology, Agnotology, and Ethics
Aztecs and Spaniards,
Archaeologies of Technology,
Material Culture in Colonial Latin America,
Ceramic Analysis (with laboratory),
Social Inequality in Mesoamerica,
Archaeologies of Colonial Latin America,
Archaeologies of Food,
Material worlds.
2003
2002
1996
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Missouri at
Columbia. Taught Prehistory of Mesoamerica.
Instructor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago.
Taught Intensive Study of a Culture: The Aztec and the Spanish Conquest.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Center for American Archaeology, Illinois.
Taught field methods in the National Science Foundation Young Scholars Field
School.
Conference papers and guest lectures
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2016
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2015
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2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
Kristin De Lucia and E. Rodríguez-Alegría, “Arqueología en el Centro de
Xaltocan.” Public forum presented at the Casa de Cultura de Xaltocan, México.
July 2016.
“Social Archaeology and Debating Local Scholars.” Paper presented in Why
Social Archaeology Matters, panel held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting
of the SAA, Orlando, April 8.
Discussant in “Archaeologies of Inclusion: Towards a Politics of Engagement.”
Forum held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Orlando, April 7.
“Postconquest Figurines from Central Mexico: Aspects of Phenotype and
Dress.” Presented at session titled Conquest and Colonialism and Mesoamerica
and South America, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, San Francisco, April 29.
Shannon Iverson and E. Rodríguez-Alegría, “Historical Archaeology in Tula,
Hidalgo.” Presented at the Mexican Center of the University of Texas at
Austin, for the event titled “Transformative Collaborations in Mexican Studies.”
April 15.
“Commodities, Communities, and Discordant Colonizers in Mexico.”
Presented at Communities and Commodities: Anthropological Perspectives on
the Material Bases of Social Groups. Session held in conjunction with the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington,
D.C., December 5.
“The Material Worlds of Colonizers in New Spain.” Lecture presented at the
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida at Gainesville.
March 20.
“Economic, Cultural, and Adaptationist Models of Technological Change in
Colonial Mexico.” Lecture sponsored by a Working Group of the Center for
Latin American Studies at Stanford University, titled Local Communities,
Global Connections: Archaeologies of “Friction” in the Spanish Colonies.
March 12.
“Shiny scissors, sharper knives: adaptationist, symbolic, and economic models
of technological change.” Franz Boas Lecture, Department of Anthropology,
Columbia University. February 12.
“Technological change after the Spanish conquest: an explanation beyond
culture and practical reason.” Archaeological Studies Seminar, Department of
Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. January 27.
“Sampling in Archaeology and History: The Case of Spanish Colonizers in
Mexico City.” Presented in Las preguntas que cuentan: Ideas and
Interpretations in Latin American Historical Archaeology. Annual Meeting of
the Society for Historical Archaeology, Quebec.
“Xaltocan, from the Aztec to the Spanish Empire.” Presented in the
Mesoamerica Center Colloquium Series, University of Texas at Austin, October
16.
“The Material World of Colonizers in New Spain.” Presented in Archaeologies
of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism Workshop, Barcelona, June 6 and 7,
2013.
“Between Analogy and Synecdoche in Colonial Mexico.” Paper presented in Is
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2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
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2009
2009
everybody doing it? The Role and Value of Analogical Reasoning in
Archaeology Reconsidered, Nordic TAG, Reykjavik, April, 2013.
“Technology, Sacrifice, and Cultural Change in Colonial Mexico.” Lecture for
the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Texas at Austin, April
17, 2013.
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Wesley Stoner. “Cooking for a Change in Colonial
Mexico.” Paper presented in Not Every meal is a banquet: on the multivocality
of food, symposium for the Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Hawaii, 2013.
“The Best Thing I've Ever Found: An Archaeological Pattern, or a Single
Document?” Paper presented at The Best Thing I’ve Ever Found, symposium
for the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San
Francisco.
“A Paradox in Colonialism and Technological Change” presented at the 54
International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria. July 15-20, 2012.
“How Natives Think, about the color green, for example.” Lecture presented at
the Sensorium Lecture Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
at Austin. April 2, 2012.
“A Paradox in Narratives of Technological Change”. Paper presented in Cutting
Edge Narratives of Technological Change, symposium for the Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association. Montreal, November 2011.
“Grinding Corn in Central Mexico: Changes from the Aztecs to the 20th Century”.
Paper presented in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory
conference. Boston, November 11-13.
“Archaeology, History, and the Politics of the Colonial period in Xaltocan,
Mexico”. Presented at the Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University.
April 28.
“Archaeology, History, and the Politics of the Colonial period in Xaltocan,
Mexico”. Lecture presented at the Archaeological Research Facility, University
of California, Berkeley. March 9.
“The Color of Majolica: Meaning and Materiality in a Rural Town in Colonial
Mexico”. Lecture presented at the Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford.
February 9, 2011.
“Archaeology and History in Colonial Mexico”. Presented at the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. November 17, 2010.
“La Mayólica en Xaltocan Colonial”. Paper presented in Cerámica y Cambio
Social. ¿Qué tan buen indicadora de transformación social es la cultura material
arqueológica? Symposium organized by Gilda Hernández Sánchez and Teresa
Salomón Salazar for the Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Mexicana de
Antropología, in Puebla, México. July 16, 2010.
E. Rodríguez-Alegría and Sarah Graff “Beyond the Biological Need to Cook:
Archaeologies of Food Preparation”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, April of 2010.
Panelist in “The Evidence of Fragments”, panel discussion at the Blanton
Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, November 19, 2009.
“Why do the Dead Come Back?” Part of a symposium titled Why Do the Dead
Come Back? Culture, Life, and Transformation from the Aztec and Maya World
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Through the Present. Presentation given at Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
2009
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on November 1, 2009.
“Blades, Bullets, and Blenders: Technological Change in Ancient and Modern
Mexico”. Presented at the Department of Anthropology, Northwestern
University, February 9, 2009.
“The Discovery and Decolonization of Xaltocan, Mexico". Presented in Lost in
Transition, symposium organized by Maxine Oland and Siobhan Hart for the
2008 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San
Francisco, CA, November 22.
“Between History and Archaeology in Colonial Mexico”. Paper presented in
Contact, Conflict, and Accomodation: Entangled Identities in Colonial Settings,
symposium organized by Mark Tveskov and Madonna Moss for the 2008
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Eugene, Oregon.
“Between the Aztecs and the Spanish in Colonial Xaltocan” Presented at the
Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, May 12, 2008.
“Exotic Things that are Shiny and Green: Material culture, indigenous power,
and the Spanish Empire” Presented at the Department of Anthropology,
University of Colorado at Boulder, October 12, 2007.
“New and improved blades and knives: narratives of colonialism and
technological change” Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. April, 2007.
“More Stones, Less Metal: Narratives of Technological Change in Xaltocan,
Mexico” Lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of
Colorado at Boulder. April 6, 2007.
“De l’Edat de Pedra a l’ Edat de més Pedra : Colonialisme i Tecnologia”. Paper
presented in Disparitats culturals: una mirada des de la cultura material a les
Amèriques. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. March 22, 2007.
“In the Stone Age and Loving It: Narratives of Colonialism and Technological
Change” Department of Anthropology Speakers Series, University of Texas at
Austin, November 27.
“Sources of Lead-glazed Pottery in Xaltocan, Mexico”. E. Rodríguez-Alegría and
Michael D. Glascock. Poster presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Historical Metaphors and Archaeological Analogies”. Paper presented in
Interdisciplinary Methods in Colonial Studies: Approaches to Studying Texts,
Images, and Space, Colloquium organized by the Institute of Latin American
2005
2005
2004
Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, March 25 and 26.
“Cooking Fashions in Colonial Mexico”. Paper presented in Archaeological
Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation, symposium organized by Sarah Graff
and E. Rodríguez-Alegría for the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.
“La Comida Colonial en Nueva España: Un Plato Mixto de Arqueología e
Historia,” Lecture presented at the Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias,
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Cayey, March 14.
“Dressed in Spanish clothes: Indigenous strategies of display in colonial
Xaltocan”. Paper presented in The Everyday Negotiation of Colonial Society,
panel organized by Jovita Baber and E. Rodríguez-Alegría for the 2004 Annual
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Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Las Vegas, October 2004.
“Change, continuity, and something else: ritual and economy in colonial
Mexico”, paper presented in Mesoamerican Ritual Economy: Archaeological and
Ethnological Perspectives, symposium organized by E. Christian Wells and Karla
Davis-Salazar for the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Chicago, November 2003.
“Same Pots, Different Worlds: Mexico City and Xaltocan in the Sixteenth
Century”, brown bag lunch presentation at the Museum of Anthropology,
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, October 9.
Rodríguez-Alegría, E. and Robert J. Speakman “Analysis of Lead-Based Glazes
by ICP-MS: the Case of Glazed Ceramics in Sixteenth-Century Mexico”, poster
presented in the Advances in Archaeological Science session at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Madison, Wisconsin, April 913.
“Less Well-Made Dishes to Serve Poorer Tastes and Pocketbooks?: the Politics
of Consumption in Colonial Mexico”. Lecture presented at the Department of
Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, February 3.
“Symbolic Appropriation: the Role of Spanish Material Culture in Nahua
Strategies of Display”. Presented in Cultural-Material Landscapes, session at the
101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New
Orleans, November 20-24.
“Eating Like an Indian (on the Floor, with the Hands)”. Lecture presented at the
Research Reactor, University of Missouri at Columbia. November 7.
“It’s a shame that they’re yellow!: Colonial Interpretations of Material Culture”.
Lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri at
Columbia. October 30.
“The House was Built on top of Demons: Urban Archaeology in Mexico City”.
Lecture presented to the Missouri Archaeological Society, Museum Support
Center, Columbia, Missouri. October 30.
“Cheap but Classy: Majolica Pottery in Early Colonial Xaltocan” Presented in
Same Objects, Different Places: Putting Distinction in Context, symposium
organized by Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría and Sarah Graff for the 2002 Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado, March 2024.
“Once more on Class, Ethnicity, Ceramics, and Archaeological Explanation in
Colonial Mexico” Presented in The Late Postclassic to Spanish-era Transition in
Mesoamerica: Archaeological Perspectives, symposium organized by Rani
Alexander and Susan Kepecs for the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 18-22.
“Ladies with Class: Proposal for an Archaeology of Gender in Colonial Mexico”,
paper presented in Texts and Things: Historical Archaeologies, panel at the 99th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco,
CA November 15-19.
“Indigenous Complicity and the Formation of Colonial Society in Mexico” Paper
presented at the 2000 Conference of Ford Fellows, Irvine, California, October
13-14.
Rodríguez-Alegría, E., Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock “The Geography
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of Ceramic Production and Competition for the Colonial Market in Mexico City:
Results from NAA of Texcoco Red and Indígena Ware Ceramics”. Poster
presented at the 32nd International Symposium on Archaeometry, Mexico City,
Mexico, May 15-20 2000.
Rodríguez-Alegría, E., Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock “New Markets,
New Commodities, and Ceramic Production in 16th Century Mexico: Neutron
Activation Analysis of Red and Indígena Ware” Presented at the 2000 Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA, April 5-9.
“Motecuhzoma’s Plates: Results of NAA of Colonial Ceramics from Mexico
City” Lecture Presented at the Missouri University Research Reactor, Columbia,
Missouri, December 9.
“Análisis del material cerámico colonial del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de
México”, Lecture given to students from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e
Historia, at the Museo del Templo Mayor, México, D.F. March 22.
“Out in the Field and Digging”, Paper presented at the CIC Predoctoral Fellows
and Alumni Conference, The University of Illinois at Chicago, November 23.
Symposia organized
2012
Organizer and chair. The Best Thing I’ve Ever Found, symposium for the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
2009
Organizer and chair with Deborah L. Nichols, Breaking and Entering the Aztec
World: Papers in Honor of Liz Brumfiel, symposium for the Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia, April 25, 2009.
2005
Organizer with Sarah Graff, Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food
Preparation, symposium for the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2004
Co-organizer and chair. The Everyday Negotiation of Colonial Society in the
Spanish Empire, symposium for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Latin American
Studies Association. Las Vegas, October 2004.
2002
Organizer and chair with Sarah Graff, Same Objects, Different Places: Putting
Distinction in Context, symposium for the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado, March 20-24.
Television
2016 The Story of God with Morgan Freeman. National Geographic Channel.
Student advising
Graduate advising
Shannon Iverson 2007- 2015. Main advisor. Department of Anthropology, University of
Texas at Austin. Obtained PhD in Fall, 2015.
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Emily Dylla 2008- in progress. Main advisor. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
at Austin.
Ana María Navas 2014- in progress. PhD committee chair. Department of Anthropology,
University of Texas at Austin.
Adriana Linares 2015- in progress. PhD committee chair. Lozano Long Institute for Latin
American Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Membership in Doctoral dissertation committees:
Elaine Higgins 2014—in progress. Department of Art History, University of New Mexico.
Elizabeth De Marigny 2015—in progress. Department of Anthropology, UT Austin.
Ayana Flewellen 2015—in progress. Department of Anthropology, UT Austin.
Angelina Jean Locker 2015—in progress. Department of Anthropology, UT Austin.
Alexander Menaker 2012- in progress. Department of Anthropology, UT Austin.
Debora Trein 2010—in progress. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
Sofia Laparidou, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. Obtained PhD in
2016.
Jaime Mata-Miguez, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. Obtained PhD
In 2016.
Caitlin Earley Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin. Obtained PhD
in 2014.
Kirsten Atwood Department of Anthropology, UT Austin. Obtained PhD in 2013.
Carla Klehm Department of Anthropology, UT Austin. Obtained PhD in 2012.
Amber O’Connor Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. Obtained PhD in
Spring 2014.
Micaela Obledo Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. Obtained PhD in
2012.
Virginia Walker Department of Art History, University of Texas at Austin. Obtained PhD in
2013.
David Hyde Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. PhD obtained in
2011.
Cornelius B. Conover 2008 Department of History, University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation
title: “A Saint In The Empire: Mexico City's San Felipe De Jesus, 1597-1820”. PhD
obtained in 2008.
Marisol Cortés Rincón 2007 Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. PhD
obtained in 2007.
Membership in M.A. thesis committees:
Jaime Mata-Míguez 2011 Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. Physical
Anthropology.
Emily Root-Garey 2010 Main advisor. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at
Austin.
Beau DuBroc 2010 Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
Shannon Dugan Iverson 2009 Main advisor. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
at Austin.
Kirsten Atwood 2006 Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
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Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervised
Karina Torres Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Thesis title: The Chachapoya: Evidence of Social Stratification or the Response to a
Safety Paranoia.
Victoria Menchaca Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Thesis title: An Analysis of the Political Status of Tula.
B.A. Thesis committees:
Amber O’Connor Honors thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
2008. Thesis title: Maya Foodways: A Reflection of Gender and Ideology.
Kate Blankenship Honors Thesis, University of Texas at Austin. 2008. Thesis title: Indigenous
Cultural Preservation and its Influence in the Syncretic Development of Colonial
Mexican Catholicism.
Mary Elizabeth Walrod Plan II (Honors), University of Texas at Austin. 2007. Thesis title:The
Indigenous Continuance in Modern Mexican Cuisine.
University service:
Member of the Visual and Material Culture of Colonial Latin America/Thoma Initiative at UT
Austin.
Member of Lab Space Committee, Department of Anthropology, UT Austin, 2016.
Member of Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Anthropology, UT Austin, 20152017.
Member of Awards Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin,
2013-2015.
Member of External Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at
Austin, Fall 2014.
Chair of Hiring Committee for Senior Archaeologist, Department of Anthropology, University of
Texas at Austin, 2011-2012. Successful search, hired Arlene Rosen, PhD.
Member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of
Texas at Austin, 2011-2012.
Chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
at Austin, 2011-2012.
Group facilitator, Department of Anthropology Futures meeting, University of Texas at Austin,
August 22, 2011.
Member of Committee on Governance, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at
Austin, 2010.
Member of hiring committee in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
at Austin, 2008-2009.
Member of hiring committee in Sociocultural Anthropology, Borderlands, Department of
Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 2007-2008.
Faculty Minority Liaison, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 20062007.
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Member of the Executive Committee, Department of Anthropology, the University of Texas at
Austin, 2006-2007.
Member of Editorial Board of Mono y Conejo, Journal of the Mesoamerican Archaeological
Research Lab, the University of Texas at Austin, since 2005.
Member of hiring committee in Sociocultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology,
University of Texas at Austin, 2005-2006.
Reviewer for Faculty Research Grants, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 2005.
Member of hiring committee in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at
Austin, 2003-2004.
Extramural service:
Reviewed application for the Fondation Canadienne Pour l’Innovation, Leaders Opportunity
Fund, 2016.
Member of the Minority Scholarship Committee of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016.
Member of Consulting Committee, Arquetopia, Foundation for Development, Mexico. 2016.
Panelist for the selection of Dissertation Fellowships for the American Council of Learned
Societies. 2015, 2016.
Ford Fellowship Panelist in Anthropology, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Elected to the Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology of the American Anthropological
Association, 2008--2010.
Reviewed book proposal for the University Press of Arizona.
Reviewed manuscripts for:
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, since 2016
American Anthropologist.
Ancient Mesoamerica.
Current Anthropology.
Historical Archaeology.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Latin American Antiquity.
Reviewed grant proposals for
National Geographic Society,
Archaeometry Laboratory of the University of Missouri Research Reactor, since 2003,
National Science Foundation, since 2011.
Reviewed Fellowship proposals for the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at
Stanford University, 2014.
Reviewed manuscript for Revista Colombiana de Antropología, Instituto Colombiano de
Antropología e Historia. 2014.
Language Skills
Spanish: first language, excellent oral and writing skills.
English: second language, excellent oral and writing skills.
French: reading skills.
Membership in Professional Organizations
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology
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American Anthropological Association
Archaeology Division
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